From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-27T03:30:08+09:00
Subject: Re: coding practise

sempsteen wrote:

> Thanks Paul.
> I knew that my code was inefficient. That's the reason why i'm here. I
> thought, because i'm dealing with numbers i can define handling
> methods inside Fixnum (neglecting Bignum).
> Now i will write it again in a different class as your code by myself.

I am certain you can improve on my code. There are a number of efficiencies
that I didn't include that would improve the performance of the algorithm,
like the prime-number strategy outlined here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicable_number

Although that strategy sometimes fails, it should give you some ideas about
improving the method.

-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com